Lou Em Beckett

Lou: Parenting, Life and Anything Else.

  • Feeding. Breast or otherwise.

    Feeding. Breast or otherwise.

    I had so many lovely comments and messages about my chapter in the book, so many of which focussed on breastfeeding. I’ve thought about it a lot in the seven years since I had our eldest so I stuck it all down here as I think there’s so many people who were in the same…

  • A very long whinge

    I don’t want to be melodramatic and say that the summer holidays last year broke me, but at some point between August begrudgingly giving way to September but before the schools blessedly reopened, I did find myself half laughing, half sobbing to Rob that “people used to listen to me, people used to respect me’” in…